Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — ABOUND A BIG STATE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUND A BIG STATE.

BRIEF COMPILATION OF INDIANA NEWS. (Vhat Our Neighbor* Are Doing:—Matters of General and Local Intereßt—Marriages and Deatha—Acctdenta and Crimea—Personal Pointer* About Indtanlans. Brief State Items. The town of Crandall is to be incorporatod. Several large eagles have been killed in Brown County this fall. A man living near Metamora is 50 years old and has never had a tooth. .Terre Gallinan, L. E. & W. switchman, fell under the cars at Muncie, and was instantly killed. Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, the wealthy murderess, has been granted a change of venue from Logansport to Kokomo. A committee has been named at Anderson for tho purpose of raising funds to care for tho poor of that town. The Darnell puddling mills, Muncie, havo boon rented by a company who will oporato the works making muck bar. KuDOLPh SHULTZ was fined slooand sent to jail for four months at LaPorto for fishing with a seine in Kankakee River To vaccinate or not to vaccinate is the question now being agitated at Terre Haute among the public school patrons. . Diphtheria has broken out in Wornto Orphans’ Homo at Richmond. Thero aro now iivo eases which wore promptly quarantined. George Burden of Marlon, a colored bo.v, 8 years old, was accidentally shot and dangerously injurod by his brother Levi, aged 14. While men wero driving a woll near Columbus, tho drill passed through a log at a depth of 80 feet and struck an immense (low of gas at 200 feet. Mary Warren has brought suit against the Kvansville Standard for $3,000 for malicious libel. She claims that tho paper accusod her of stealing. Elmer Lee of Edinburg, has brought suit for SIO,OOO damages against the Edinburg Starch Works Company for injuries roceivod while in their employ. There are now five factories and over fifty buildings at Ingulls erected sinoo last May. Ton brick residences wore started tbis wook, aud every man in tho town is at work.

Fire dostroyod the house and barn of widow Carter and tho house of Tod Lewis, at Martinsville. Mrs. Carter’s loss is $2,000; insured for S3OO in the ./Etna, of Hurtford, Conn. Miss Daisy Myers of Mudison, is trying to locuto her brothor, from whom Hho wns separated while a mere Imho. It is thought that he lives in Wabash County and was adopted soverul years ago by a family named Lamb.

George Hendrickson, who was injured a few dayH ago by a premature shot in Sohufferraun's mine, south ol Brazil, is dead. Mr. Hendrickson was ono of tho wealthiest und oldest miners In tho county. Ho leaves a wife and family. Miss Cyren a Stack, ngod 15, who stole a horse und buggy from a farmer noar Windfall, last week, and wuh captured with the. rig in her possession, ploaded guilty at Kokomo, and was sentenced to six years In tho Reform School.

A Terre Hauje jury hasroturned a verdict of S3OO damages against Park County in favor of Daniel Sapponlield. At a former tidal a jury awarded S7OO damages. Sappenileld mot with an accident on a county bridge which was out of repair. While in tho act of lifting a door lock from a shelf in tho hurdware store of Charlos Davis, in Wabash, John Cochran was stricken with heart disoaso and fell to tho floor dead. He was 04 years old, and moved from Peru to Wabash In 1849. Four casualties occurred at Evansville one day rocontly. Minnie Proctor, aged 12, was burned to death by her clothos catching fire from burning leaves; George Dover, agod 14, was thrown from a horse and killed; Peter Graef, a wealthy farmer, committed suicide by shooting himßolf; Edward Sweeney fell out of a burn loft and wus fatully injured.

There Isa movement on foot in Pike and Daviess County to got a parole of a few months for Burr Hawes. Hawes, it will bo romemborod, was sent to the penitentiary from Petersburg last July for eight yours for assisting In burning the Daviess County Courthouse. His son, Edward Hawes, is now in Pike County circulating u paper for a parole and has got many signatures. Since Hawes' imprisonment his family have had a good deal of sickness. This, together with the condition of his business utTairs at home, led his lriends to ask for the parole. One of the boldest robberies ever perpetrated in Lawrence County occurred the other night a short distance from Enon Valley. The victim of tic robbery was Mrs. Mary Williams, the aged wife of John Williams, a farmer. Williams was away from home. At 11 o’clock there was a rap at the door, and when Mrs. Williams opened it she was confronted by three revolvers in the hands of masked men. Tne old lauy screamed once, when all three of the men sprang upon her, and in a minute she was helpless, bound and gagged. After torturing her for more than an hour the old lady finally disclosed the hiding place of the money, and the robbers secured S2OO in gold, after which they fled. Mrs. Williams was found next morning still bound and gaged. Her condition is serious, and it is probable that she will not survive the shock and the injuries she received. Robert Pogue, aged 92, died at his home on North Union street, Union City. Mr. Pogue is one of the oldest pioneers in that section of the country, having settled there when Dayton was the nearest trading point. He built the first house on the ground now occupied by Union City. Walter Wunderlich, a reportei on the Evansville Journal, has brought suit against the Standard and Germania, papers of that city, lor SIO,OOO damages for libel. He claims that thev asserted that he broke into the cash drawer in the County Clerk’s office in search of a suppressed item. Mr. J. J. Morgan, living near Jasper, the o’ther day, shota squirrel that had but one ear and instead of teeth had four tusks, two from the upper jaw and two from the lower. The tusks were about two inches long. While Elder W. B. F. r Treat, a Christian minister of Muncie, was on his way to take part in a four-day religious debate with Rev.'John Hughes, a Universalist minister, at Saluda, Jefferson County, the team ran away, throwing Elder Treat out on his head. He remained unconscious for more than two hours, and was compelled to return to his home at Muncie. The debate has been declared off. His condition is serious.